lifeandmylens wrote:
Rented a M10r a few hours prior and risked my daughters 1st birthday pics with a rangefinder. I was worried they'd all be out of focus. I was right but only slightly.
Tired eyes, dark interiors, dirty viewfinder, a glass of wine, a baby that moves and no experience with a RF was quite the experience!
That said, any tips for using the focus patch on faces?
If in doubt, slightly front focus because it looks better than slightly back focused. And at wide apertures, as already suggested, focus bracket by moving your body back and forth slightly.
When you receive your 'new' M10-R, sit down with it and all your M lenses and shoot focus tests with all of them. Easiest way is to use the EVF, focus with it in magnified view, then look at the RF patch and see if it's perfectly lined up. If not, make a mental note of how far off it is and when shooting with a given lens at or near wide open, 'mis-focus' the RF patch by this amount. From my experience, the wide open focus hit rate can be surprisingly good considering you're not viewing through the lens. If any of your lenses have focus shift, repeat the test 1, 2 and maybe 3 stops from wide open to determine how much more you'll need to compensate the RF patch alignment.
At normal viewing distances and sizes, slight mis-focus usually isn't noticeable. Also, most non-photographers react to the emotional content of the image rather than the technical quality, so it helps to view images in this light when making your selects.
but only slightly. 